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SaturDox 2024
24/02/2024 @ 19:00 - 04/05/2024 @ 21:00

Against Annihilation: Films from Palestine
SaturDox 12th Documentary Screenings
February 24 – May 4, 2024
SaturDox, organised by Depo and Documentarist, is back after a four-year break. This year’s SaturDox Documentary Screenings will focus on films about Palestinian life and resistance. Against Annihilation: Films from Palestine will not only include film screenings but also talks on the history and the present day of the occupation in Palestine and Palestinian liberation movements, as well as poetry and literature readings.
Starting on 24 February, the programme features films that bear witness to the extraordinary conditions endured by Palestinians in their daily lives in Gaza before October 7, 2023, to the oppression they are subjected to by Israeli soldiers in the West Bank, to Zionist violence and the Palestinian struggle for freedom. Against Annihilation: Films from Palestine aims to tackle the occupation, which Israel and its allies have tried to reduce to the past four months, from a broader historical perspective.
All screenings will start at 19:00 and will be followed by a talk. All films will be screened with Turkish with English subtitles. All screenings are free of charge and registration is not required to participate.
On Saturday, February 24 and April 20, at 18:00 before the screenings, poems and texts in Arabic, English and Turkish will be read in solidarity with Palestine.
PROGRAMME ↓
Saturday, February 24
One More Jump
Director: Emanuele Gerosa
Italy, Switzerland, Lebanon, 2019, 83’
Talk: Hasan Tahrawi, Palestinian journalist
Jehad and Abdallah, the founders of the Gaza Parkour Team, grew up together in the Gaza Strip, but were separated for years as they developed different personal interests. Now, more than ever, they find themselves needing to unite to find ways for liberation for people born in a prison, like themselves.
Saturday, March 9
Aisheen [Still Alive in Gaza]
Director: Nicolas Wadimoff
Switzerland, Qatar, 2010, 86’
Talk: Selim Sezer, Harun Turgan, Irmak Karasu, Gülkan Noir (BDS volunteers)
Aisheen [Still alive in Gaza] tells the story about the wait after the disaster. The wait for a better future inside the biggest prison in the world. Through encounters in these otherwise ordinary places (but places that, here, take on another meaning), the film portrays a different Gaza. Poetic, surreal at times. Aisheen is a tribute to life…
Saturday, March 23
Of Land and Bread
Director: Ehab Tarabieh
Israel, Palestine, 2019, 89’
Talk: Erhan Keleşoğlu, political scientist
Ehab Tarabieh’s Of Land and Bread consists of dozens of short videos recorded by cameras provided by the human rights organization B’Tselem. Military personnel seem to enjoy making things difficult for Palestinian adults and children alike, while Israeli citizens proceed to escalate the violence by throwing rocks and shouting racist chants. As the film unfolds, things go from bad to worse. By editing together so much evidence of the horrifying reality Palestinians have to endure, Tarabieh makes the sense of injustice creep deep under the viewer’s skin.
Thursday, April 4
Ghost Hunting
Director: Raed Andoni
France, Palestine, Sweden, Qatar, 2017, 94’
Talk: Ayşe Düzkan, writer, Filistin’in Sesi [Voice of Palestine] volunteer
Director Raed Andoni arranges for a replica of Jerusalem’s Moskobiya interrogation centre, where its interrogation rooms and cells would be built to scale inside a hall, under close supervision from former inmates and based on their memories. In this realistic setting, the men subsequently re-enact their interrogations, discuss details about the prison, and the humiliation they experienced during their detention. The director too appears in front of the camera, trying to come to terms with the fragmented memories of his own imprisonment in Moskobiya thirty years ago.
Saturday, April 20
Foragers
Director: Jumana Manna
Palestine, 2022, 64’
Talk: Nicola Saafin, Palestinian activist
Shot in the Golan Heights, the Galilee and Jerusalem, Foragers employs fiction, documentary and archival footage to portray the impact of Israeli nature protection laws on the foraging for wild edible plants. Following the plants from the wild to the kitchen, from the chases between the foragers and the nature patrol, to courtroom defences, Foragers captures the joy and knowledge embodied in these traditions alongside their resilience to the prohibitive law. By reframing the terms and constraints of preservation, the film raises questions around the politics of extinction, namely who determines what is made extinct and what gets to live on.
Saturday, May 4
Short films from Palestine